This article fromEEmilie Gillet is taken from the monthly magazine Sciences et Avenir n°953-954, dated July-August 2026.
In France, the proportion of patients alive five years after a cancer diagnosis was around 45% some forty years ago. Today, this 5-year survival rate, which serves as the benchmark for commonly discussing a cure, exceeds 60%. This is "thanks to advances in treatments, particularly the rise of targeted therapies and immunotherapy, and successive Cancer Plans which have made it possible to structure care pathways" " explains Professor Steven Le Gouill, director of the Curie Institute hospital group in Paris. The most recent one, called Ten-year strategy for combating cancers 2021-2030, has also set itself the goal of reducing cancer mortality from 162,000 deaths to 100,000 per year by 2030.
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